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Word Meanings - ALLIGATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To tie; to unite by some tie. Instincts alligated to their nature. Sir M. Hale.

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  • UNITERABLE
    Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
  • ALLIGATION
    A rule relating to the solution of questions concerning the compounding or mixing of different ingredients, or ingredients of different qualities or values. Note: The rule is named from the method of connecting together the terms by certain
  • ALLIGATE
    To tie; to unite by some tie. Instincts alligated to their nature. Sir M. Hale.
  • ALLIGATOR WRENCH
    A kind of pipe wrench having a flaring jaw with teeth on one side.
  • NATURED
    Having a nature, temper, or disposition; disposed; -- used in composition; as, good-natured, ill-natured, etc.
  • UNITEDLY
    In an united manner. Dryden.
  • UNITE
    1. To become one; to be cemented or consolidated; to combine, as by adhesion or mixture; to coalesce; to grow together. 2. To join in an act; to concur; to act in concert; as, all parties united in signing the petition.
  • NATURELESS
    Not in accordance with nature; unnatural. Milton.
  • UNITER
    One who, or that which, unites.
  • NATURE
    1. The existing system of things; the world of matter, or of matter and mind; the creation; the universe. But looks through nature up to nature's God. Pope. Nature has caprices which art can not imitate. Macaulay. 2. The personified sum and order
  • UNITED
    Combined; joined; made one. United Brethren. See Moravian, n. -- United flowers , flowers which have the stamens and pistils in the same flower. -- The United Kingdom, Great Britain and Ireland; -- so named since January 1, 1801, when
  • ALLIGATOR
    A large carnivorous reptile of the Crocodile family, peculiar to America. It has a shorter and broader snout than the crocodile, and the large teeth of the lower jaw shut into pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common
  • THEIR
    The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country. Note: The possessive takes the form theirs (theirs is best cultivated. Nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs. Denham.
  • UNNATURE
    To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney.
  • DEMINATURED
    Having half the nature of another. Shak.
  • TIME SIGNATURE
    A sign at the beginning of a composition or movement, placed after the key signature, to indicate its time or meter. Also called rhythmical signature. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as
  • ORNATURE
    Decoration; ornamentation. Holinshed.
  • ALUNITE
    Alum stone.
  • CONSIGNATURE
    Joint signature. Colgrave.
  • REUNITEDLY
    In a reunited manner.
  • TRANSNATURE
    To transfer or transform the nature of. We are transelemented, or transnatured. Jewel.
  • BRAUNITE
    A native oxide of manganese, of dark brownish black color. It was named from a Mr. Braun of Gotha.
  • DENATURE
    To deprive of its natural qualities; change the nature of.
  • SIGNATURE
    An outward mark by which internal characteristics were supposed to be indicated. Some plants bear a very evident signature of their nature and use. Dr. H. More. (more info) 1. A sign, stamp, or mark impressed, as by a seal. The brain, being well
  • PREMUNITE
    To fortify beforehand; to guard against objection. Fotherby.
  • DISNATURED
    Deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural. Shak.
  • DISUNITE
    1. To destroy the union of; to divide; to part; to sever; to disjoin; to sunder; to separate; as, to disunite particles of matter. 2. To alienate in spirit; to break the concord of. Go on both in hand, O nations, never be disunited, be the praise

 

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